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When Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said to his disciples,
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"You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of man will be delivered up to be crucified."
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Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of the high priest, who was called Ca'iaphas,
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and took counsel together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.
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But they said, "Not during the feast, lest there be a tumult among the people."
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Now when Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,
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a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head, as he sat at table.
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But when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, "Why this waste?